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Kurdistan is different, as nearly every Iraqi Kurd I have
ever met has said. Far less violent than the rest of Iraq since the U.S.-led
invasion in 2003, the parts of the north controlled by the Kurdish Regional
Government have escaped the kind of sectarian unrest that continues to flare in
the south. But in recent months more than 150 Iraqi Kurdish journalists have
been injured or attacked, according to the local Metro
Center to Defend Journalists. One journalist was murdered three years ago
in Kirkuk after uncovering evidence of government corruption. But most of the journalists who find
themselves more recently under siege have been covering violent clashes
between the Kurdish security forces and protestors in Sulaymaniyah.

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New York, August 10, 2010--The Committee to Protect Journalists is
alarmed by death threats made against journalists at the Sulaymaniyah-based
Livin after the magazine
published an interview that was critical of a 20th-century Kurdish
leader.